Inside the Air Force's new use of commercial cloud

Fedscoop: Las Vegas — A culture shift is taking root in the Air Force around delivering ground software capabilities, driven by the Defense Digital Service encouraging the service to use commercial cloud for testing, officials said Monday.

An Air Force contractor has been working on the service's next-generation operational control system, which would control the newest version of the DOD's global positioning system satellites. But when the new code was almost completely written, it wasn’t working in integrated test, said Air Force Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves at Amazon’s re: Invent conference in Las Vegas.

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